Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Colonel Andrew Bacevich, a professor at Boston University, served in Vietnam. His son was killed serving in Afghanistan. He comes from a military family. I know him. He is among the best that our country has produced.
As has occurred before, he has saved me from having to write an article by writing it himself. And he has written it better.
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Bacevich points out that the orchestrated attack on President Trump is based on the assumption that President Trump has launched an attack on the open, liberal, enlightened, rule of law, and democratic order that Washington has established. This liberal world order of goodness is threatened by a Trump-Putin Conspiracy.
Bacevich, a rare honest American, says this that this characterization of America is a bullshit myth.
For example, the orchestrated image of America as the great upholder of truth, justice, democracy, and human rights conveniently overlooks Washington’s “meddling in foreign elections; coups and assassination plots in Iran [Washington’s 1953 overthrow of the first elected Iranian government], Guatemala, the Congo, Cuba, South Vietnam, Chile, Nicaragua, and elsewhere; indiscriminate aerial bombing campaigns in North Korea and throughout Southeast Asia; a nuclear arms race bringing the world to the brink of Armageddon; support for corrupt, authoritarian regimes in Iran [the Shah], Turkey, Greece, South Korea, South Vietnam, the Philippines, Brazil, Egypt, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and elsewhere—many of them abandoned when deemed inconvenient; the shielding of illegal activities through the use of the Security Council veto; unlawful wars launched under false pretenses; ‘extraordinary rendition,’ torture, and the indefinite imprisonment of persons without any semblance of due process [the evisceration of the US Constitution].”
In other words, Washington is the opposite of how it orchestrates its portrait. There is no such thing as “liberal internationalism.” All “liberal internationalism” means is American hegemony over the idiot countries that participate in “liberal internationalism.”
President Trump is in trouble, Bacevich says, because “he appears disinclined to perpetuate American hegemony.”
American hegemony is the neoconservatives’ God, and “the Russian threat” is the savior of the military/security complex’s $1.1 trillion annual budget. President Trump is a threat to both.
Here is Col. Andy Bacevich’s column: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-global-order-myth/
Agree with content, except:
“”President Trump is in trouble, Bacevich says, because “he appears disinclined to perpetuate American hegemony.”””
1. If you listened to Mad Dog at the Armed Services Committee Hearing, he pointed to China and Russia as the two countries not following US dictates (my words).
2. If you are following US actions in Syria, you would know that we are attacking troops supporting Assad. Our troops and equipment are inside Syria, across the Jordanian border.
The US has become despicable for its Regime Change activities throughout the world, currently active in MENA. I hope the US pushes too far and gets some planes shot down or has its two bases obliterated that are inside Syria on the Jordan border. The US Gov’t needs a hard dose of reality in order to revert back to the beacon of good it once enjoyed.
Praying for the death of Americans…nice. Obliterated? Maybe we can get Kathy Griffin to hold up their severed heads…Now that’s comedy and art! Would that be a good enough dose of hard reality for you? How about we just pull all of our people out of there instead?
PCR’s synopsis of the article is a little out of sync with mine. Bacevich is a very well-informed writer with a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of 20th century history and he writes very concisely.
It might serve the reader better to skip PCR’s synopsis and read the article at TAC. Here’s the closing paragraph:
“However ill-suited by intellect, temperament, and character for the office he holds, Trump has seemingly intuited the need for such change. In this regard, if in none other, I’m with the Donald
But note the irony. Trump may come closer to full-fledged historical illiteracy than any president since Warren G. Harding. Small wonder then that his rejection of the mythic past long employed to preempt serious debate regarding U.S. policy gives fits to the perpetrators of those myths.”
A little more eloquent than “Trump’s in trouble because….”, ain’t it?
I wish people would stop using America, it’s the United States, hasn’t been America for many years.
It’s ZOG, hasn’t been the United States in over 100 years.
“The sole purpose of US hegemony in the modern world is to prop up Israel and the principal instrument of that policy is NATO, which provides a legal pretext for maintaining US forces and (in fact, more importantly) military supplies near to Israel and a convenient fuel stop on the most direct route from the US to Israel. Thus, anyone who challenges that hegemony or NATO will incur the wrath of Israel and its American supporters. By attacking Ukraine and annexing Crimea, combined with Obama’s weak reaction to those events, Putin challenged (and discredited) both US hegemony and NATO. To make matters worse, Putin has now made himself the protector of Assad, whom Israel wants to see gone, and has snuggled up to Iran, Israel’s designated no. 1 enemy. For Israel and its American supporters, therefore, Putin has to go. Trump has allowed Putin’s American supporters to create the impression that he is in Putin’s pocket, or worse yet, the Russian Mafia’s pocket, and has done little or nothing to correct that impression, so, logically, as long as he continues down that road, Israel’s supporters see no alternative to forcing Trump out of office, one way or another.”
(commentor) see below
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-global-order-myth/